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Cloud Databases

MySQL Database-as-a-Service: Easy, Fast and Fully Managed

Get a performance-optimized database for your application in minutes. Cloud Databases gives you simple, on-demand provisioning and open APIs—so you can deploy MySQL, Percona Server, or MariaDB with minimal effort.

Starting at

$0.05/hr£0.030675/hrA$0.0625/hr€0.042375/hr

No upfront costs or contracts

Fully Managed

With 24x7x365 monitoring and database specialists available to you anytime, you spend less time managing infrastructure and more time focusing on your application.

Performance Optimized

From the network to the storage system and database configuration, we optimize every infrastructure component to provide peak database performance.

Simple to Use

Easily provision, scale and access your databases using our control panel, API or CLI. Deploy in minutes and free yourself from time-consuming and costly management tasks.

Cloud Databases is available in all of our global data centers, and it's backed by MySQL experts who tackle the management challenge for you. Add Cloud Databases to your solution and start enjoying the benefits of an easy-to-use database deployed on purpose-built hardware.

Features

Built for Reliability

Redundant storage, power and networking help protect you from hardware failures. A dedicated storage cluster with synchronous data replication keeps your data available across multiple storage clusters and helps to protect against data loss.

Cloud Databases Pricing

Our dedicated team of customer data engineers will help you create, install, patch, monitor and troubleshoot Cloud Databases.

Standard Instance Pricing

RAM

Logical Cores

CPU Weight

I/O Priority

Network

TPS

512MB

1

0.5

1

20Mbit

116*

$0.05

$36.50

1GB

1

1

2

100Mbit

449*

$0.06

$43.80

2GB

2

2

3

200Mbit

864*

$0.12

$87.60

4GB

4

4

4

300Mbit

1566*

$0.24

$175.20

8GB

6

8

5

400Mbit

2130*

$0.48

$350.40

16GB

8

16

6

500Mbit

2651*

$0.96

$700.80

32GB

10

32

7

1000Mbit

3372*

$1.92

$1,401.60

64GB

14

64

8

2000Mbit

3785*

$3.84

$2,803.20

RAM

Logical Cores

CPU Weight

I/O Priority

Network

TPS

512MB

1

0.5

1

20Mbit

116*

£0.030675

£22.39275

1GB

1

1

2

100Mbit

449*

£0.03681

£26.8713

2GB

2

2

3

200Mbit

864*

£0.07362

£53.7426

4GB

4

4

4

300Mbit

1566*

£0.14724

£107.4852

8GB

6

8

5

400Mbit

2130*

£0.29448

£214.9704

16GB

8

16

6

500Mbit

2651*

£0.58896

£429.9408

32GB

10

32

7

1000Mbit

3372*

£1.17792

£859.8816

64GB

14

64

8

2000Mbit

3785*

£2.35584

£1,719.7632

RAM

Logical Cores

CPU Weight

I/O Priority

Network

TPS

512MB

1

0.5

1

20Mbit

116*

A$0.0625

A$45.625

1GB

1

1

2

100Mbit

449*

A$0.075

A$54.75

2GB

2

2

3

200Mbit

864*

A$0.15

A$109.50

4GB

4

4

4

300Mbit

1566*

A$0.30

A$219.00

8GB

6

8

5

400Mbit

2130*

A$0.60

A$438.00

16GB

8

16

6

500Mbit

2651*

A$1.20

A$876.00

32GB

10

32

7

1000Mbit

3372*

A$2.40

A$1,752.00

64GB

14

64

8

2000Mbit

3785*

A$4.80

A$3,504.00

RAM

Logical Cores

CPU Weight

I/O Priority

Network

TPS

512MB

1

0.5

1

20Mbit

116*

€0.042375

€30.93375

1GB

1

1

2

100Mbit

449*

€0.05085

€37.1205

2GB

2

2

3

200Mbit

864*

€0.1017

€74.241

4GB

4

4

4

300Mbit

1566*

€0.2034

€148.482

8GB

6

8

5

400Mbit

2130*

€0.4068

€296.964

16GB

8

16

6

500Mbit

2651*

€0.8136

€593.928

32GB

10

32

7

1000Mbit

3372*

€1.6272

€1,187.856

64GB

14

64

8

2000Mbit

3785*

€3.2544

€2,375.712

Currency:

Storage Price: $0.75/GB/month£0.46/GB/monthA$0.94/GB/month€0.64/GB/monthCPU Weight: Higher is better, with the instance receiving more time on the CPU on the basis of its weight under high load.
Network: Allocated network throughput.
TPS (Transactions per second): Benchmark (June 2014) in transactions per second using 64 MySQL threads for all flavors, except 32 threads for 512MB.

*Your mileage may vary. A benchmark is only a guideline and not representative of the performance your application will see. Always benchmark your own application.

**Cloud Database's backups are stored in Cloud Files and therefore are subject to standard Cloud Files pricing per GB of storage used by the backups. Please see the Cloud Files pricing page for more details on Cloud Files pricing.

High Availability Instance Pricing

RAM

Logical Cores

CPU Weight

I/O Priority

Network

TPS

1GB

1

1

1

100Mbit

449*

$0.08

$58.40

2GB

2

2

2

200Mbit

864*

$0.14

$102.20

4GB

4

4

3

300Mbit

1566*

$0.26

$189.80

8GB

6

8

4

400Mbit

2130*

$0.51

$372.30

16GB

8

16

5

500Mbit

2651*

$0.99

$722.70

32GB

10

32

6

1000Mbit

3372*

$1.95

$1,423.50

64GB

14

64

7

2000Mbit

3785*

$3.85

$2,810.50

RAM

Logical Cores

CPU Weight

I/O Priority

Network

TPS

1GB

1

1

1

100Mbit

449*

£0.04908

£35.8284

2GB

2

2

2

200Mbit

864*

£0.08589

£62.6997

4GB

4

4

3

300Mbit

1566*

£0.15951

£116.4423

8GB

6

8

4

400Mbit

2130*

£0.312885

£228.40605

16GB

8

16

5

500Mbit

2651*

£0.607365

£443.37645

32GB

10

32

6

1000Mbit

3372*

£1.196325

£873.31725

64GB

14

64

7

2000Mbit

3785*

£2.361975

£1,724.24175

RAM

Logical Cores

CPU Weight

I/O Priority

Network

TPS

1GB

1

1

1

100Mbit

449*

A$0.10

A$73.00

2GB

2

2

2

200Mbit

864*

A$0.175

A$127.75

4GB

4

4

3

300Mbit

1566*

A$0.325

A$237.25

8GB

6

8

4

400Mbit

2130*

A$0.6375

A$465.375

16GB

8

16

5

500Mbit

2651*

A$1.2375

A$903.375

32GB

10

32

6

1000Mbit

3372*

A$2.4375

A$1,779.375

64GB

14

64

7

2000Mbit

3785*

A$4.8125

A$3,513.125

RAM

Logical Cores

CPU Weight

I/O Priority

Network

TPS

1GB

1

1

1

100Mbit

449*

€0.0678

€49.494

2GB

2

2

2

200Mbit

864*

€0.11865

€86.6145

4GB

4

4

3

300Mbit

1566*

€0.22035

€160.8555

8GB

6

8

4

400Mbit

2130*

€0.432225

€315.52425

16GB

8

16

5

500Mbit

2651*

€0.839025

€612.48825

32GB

10

32

6

1000Mbit

3372*

€1.652625

€1,206.41625

64GB

14

64

7

2000Mbit

3785*

€3.262875

€2,381.89875

Currency:

US data center rates are shown.

NOTE: Master and replicas are separate instances, each charged at the standard rate above.

Availability: US and UK data centers only.
Storage Price: $0.75/GB/month£0.46/GB/monthA$0.94/GB/month€0.64/GB/monthCPU Weight: Higher is better, with the instance receiving more time on the CPU on the basis of its weight under high load.
Network: Allocated network throughput.
TPS (Transactions per second): Benchmark (June 2014) in transactions per second using 64 MySQL threads for all flavors, except 32 threads for 512MB.

*Your mileage may vary. A benchmark is only a guideline and not representative of the performance your application will see. Always benchmark your own application.

**Cloud Database's backups are stored in Cloud Files and therefore are subject to standard Cloud Files pricing per GB of storage used by the backups. Please see the Cloud Files pricing page for more details on Cloud Files pricing.

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"Rackspace has been invaluable in helping our startup succeed. The stability and performance of Cloud Databases allows us to scale in a cost-effective manner and focus on optimizing, scaling, and enhancing our Appreciation Engine product."